This year marks the400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. Though Europeans had visited this land long before, Jamestown, settled in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

There are are a couple of new books out or coming out that seem worth investigating.

This year marks the 300th birthday for a great American Hero, Benjamin Franklin, who was born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts.

What: The second presentation in the Engineering Excellence in the 21st Century Distinguished Lecture Series Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies When: Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 7:30 p.

When I dreamed of experiencing high dimensionality, I never thought it would be like this.

I’m out in Los Angeles at UCLA for a math workshop.